Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-09-10
NEWS NOTES.

The Chicago Base Ball club appears to be
in badly demoralized condition, and unless
harmony is quickly restored, its chances of
winning the pennant are very slight. Inc
players, with one or two exceptions, are IN
open revolt against Arson, whose action In
filming Pfeffer for misplays recently Is
bitterly denounc d. Pfeffer ard some OF
the others insist that "Anson must CO."
The treasury department is making siren
uous efforts to break up the practice OF
issuing limitations of the national currency
to winch many commercial colleges and
business firms are addicted. This bogus
currency has been extensively used by
sharpers to swindle ignorant people, and its
manufacture is in express violation OF law.
The chief of the secret service on Saturday
seized and destroyed large quantity of the
stuff issued by Washington business col
lege."
Only late-planted corn was much benefited
by the recent rains. The crop in Illinois will
not reach 80 per cent of an average.
Pastures are doing well Throughout the west,
and the prospect for fall feed is good. The
apple crop of Illinois will not exceed one
third of an average. Light frosts have
occurred in some of the central counties,
but no damage to vegetation is reported.
obtained restraining order to prevent A. II.
johnson, president of the Arkansas Midland,
from taking possession of portion of its
roadbed, claimed by him under judgment
recently rendered.
Sir Arthur Blackwood, who has been in
speeding the Canadian Pacific railroad as
represents tive of the British government,
reports that the road is poorly built and that
the trains make very slow time.
General Manager Van Horne, of the Cana
dian Pacific railway asserts that the Red
River Valley railway project is in the inter-
est of the movement for the annexation of
Manitoba to the United States. The grading
of the new line has been completed
The United States court at San Francisco
has blocked the Pacific railway investigation
by refusing to issue an order upon Senator
Stanford to answer questions or to direct
the officers of the railroad companies to pro-
duce their books. The decision was rendered
by Justice Field.
Archbishop Walsh is trying to bring about
formidable conference" between COM
mittees representing the Irish landlords and
their tenants. The prelate's intentions are
excellent, but his plan is hardly feasible.
In the present temper of the landlords and
tenants a conference between them would
be fruitless, if, indeed, it did not aggravate
their differences. The Irish land question
will have to be settled by methods more he
roic.
The politicians of Idaho are moving for
an enlargement of its boundaries, prelimi-
nary to an application for admission as a
state. The scheme for the annexation of
Idaho to Nevada has been abandoned.
Mendoza, Illinois has gas well only
ninety feet deep, with pressure of twenty
four pounds to the inch.
George S, Hall, farmer of Macomb coun-
ty, Michigan, was burned to death in a
livery stable fire at Detroit, Michigan.
At Wyoming, Illinois, Miss Rose Coffey,
of Elgin, school teacher, became insane,
jumped from a culvert, and fractured her
skull. 1t is expected she will die.
Two employees of restaurant in Findley,
Ohio, quarreled, and Sam Pence, one of the
disputants, killed Harry Carlton, the other,
with four-pound weight.
The health authorities of Rome deny that
cholera has appeared in that city.
J. A. Jones. charged with embezzlement
at Lawrenceviue, Illinois, is to be brought
back on extradition papers from Fredonia,
Kansas.
to get supply of natural gas by pipeline
from Blackford county, Indiana. The cost
will be 100000.
Most of the millers in Minneapolis have
been obliged to put their steam engines at
work, the supply of water in the Mississippi
beng insufficient.
A special session of the Spanish cortes is |
likely to be held in October, to take action |
%lnl r; e%r, s,~T I'LL
A musical society has been formed in New |
York to "extend the Interpretation of !
Wagner's music" The boiler-shop in which |
the Interpretation will happen has not yet |
been selected.
Several members of the Russian mission |
were killed in riot at Kashgar, provoked |
by insults offered by the Russians to Mo-
hammedan women. The embassy has re-
turned to Khokand.
A Pittsburg vegetable peddler named |
Thomas Joyce fatally shot his wife, and |
dangerously wounded his daughter. He was
half drunk, and said he intended to kill
hem and himself.
Twelve cents word from New York to
England, Ireland, and France, and Is cents
20 Germany, are the rates to be charged |
hereafter by the Commercial Cable company.
l hO SOlupdhy hdS NOUCu ill duUlllOu sOI
BOO, 600 to its capital stock.
1t is intimated that Jay Gould furnished
5he cash invested in the purchase or lease of |
the Baltimore and Ohio express.
Richard Emerson, boy sixteen years old.
lied at Kenosha, Wisconsin, of hydropho
'la. He was bitten by a pet dog two months
lgo.
Further examination of the effects of Cliff
ord, alias Dale, the horse thief captured in
lineage the other day, leaves no doubt that
le was preparing to attempt passing series
II bank forgeries. He had selected the Fort
Dearborn bank as one of his victims, and
lad been practicing limitations of signatures
II genuine drafts. The police believe that
e belongs to gang, and are hoping for
Jews as to its membership.
Two months ago the law-abiding people of
calrmount, Indiana, used dynamite In blow
Rg up building intended to be used az a
Arson. The owner erected another honse.
nut the people have AGAIN torn T. -